San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-16
FIGURES THAT Do LIE.

The Texas Christian Advocate, Of Dali
las, that organ Of divinely ssnctified and
sanctioned ministries for the conversion
OF men from error to truth-that organ
Of a church declaring Itself spiritually
commissioned and superhumanly en-
dowed to bring men out OF darkness and
translate them into the marvellous light
81 that truth which shines only In the
Kingdom Of Gods dear Son-thst mouth
piece Of the "Son Of man," whose king
dom was not of this world, contains the
following remarkable statement in Its
editorial columns Of last Thursday:
An analysis Of the vote, while 1t brings
great rejoicing to the prohibition camp,
is a skeleton in the closet OF the sntis t.
DR.. Arch Cochran, a republican leader
and chief In the True Blue army,
claims In an interview published In the
Dallas News, that $4,000 negroes and
$4,000 Germans cast their votes against
the amendment. II so, the following Ia
fair analysis OF the "undemocratic"
part OF the anti vote:
COiOreO votes. .....s..............4 o,OOO
Oermhn VOtes...... ...... 80. ..3U,UUO
NaturallZed votes. ................. sou
ohioon VOles..'.... ,...............l U,UOU
Fraudulent votes .................. 5000
Total. .....' ...... ............ 93,UOO
This would indicate that the "undemo-
cratic" element constitutes the largest
portion Of the anti vote. We still hold
to 1t that 10000 more democrats voted
Tor the amendment than against 1t.
Had this Misrepresentation OF facts
appeared In some secular journals, fore
ordained to lie from the beginning Of
the world, not being under the domin-
ion Of grace but under the dominion Of
sin, Ii would not have been q matter Of
surprise. But coming from the sanctI-
fed source Of ohurchly Inspirations and
authorities 1t becomes necessary to aid
the Christian mind that laid down the
above figures In dispelling the darkness
OF error into which he has uncOnsciously
been led. Satan does appear at times
as an angel OF light, and to this fact
alone can be attributed the unfortunate
pitfall and snare into which the feet OF
this unwsry Christian editor has fallen,
and out OF which the LIGHT hastens to
deliver him, In the depth OF q charity
thst has no mere churchly restrictions.
The "fair analysis" is what the LIGHT
directs special attention to. The three
items OF "nsturaliZed votes" saloon
votes" and fraudulent votes" amount
to $1,000. Does the Christian Advocate
assert that there are 10000 undemo-
cratic saloon keepers In Texas? Does
the Christian Advocate assert that there
were 5000 fraudulent votes cast August
4th that will not ordinarily vote with
the democratic partyp Does the Advo-
cate assert that the 5000 votes 1t claims
as naturalized were neither Germans
nor colOred people, did not belong with
the 'ssloon vote" and were not fraudu-
lentp The Christian Advocate has gone
q long way out OF Its path to stultify
Itself. In the same issue OF the Chris
tian Advocate the claim Is made that
the voting strength Of the prohibition
army is 10000. The anti-prohIDItion
majority is over 100000 rather than
under, returns from 1853 counties
showing majority Of 92,549. Accord
Ing to the advocate then the total vote
polled must have been at least $3.50, 600.
The Advocate says that 10000 more
democrats voted for the amendment
than against it. The total vote against
the amendment was 100000 according to
this Christian statisticIan; only lac, 900;
votes were polled for the amendment,
counting this whole 10000 Simon pure
democrats, deduoting from this number
the 10000 more democrats who voted for
the amendment than voted against IL
according to the Advocate) and you
have 100000 democrats who voted
against the amendment. Now to this
10000 add the $1,000 "COlored votes"
"german votes" "naturalized votes"
''salOon votes" and fraudulent votes"
which make up the sum total Of the I'M
democratic part Of the anti vote AndyOu